Boxing After Dinner

The best thing about the silly Tyson-Paul fakefight Event was the REAL fight between champions Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano. Non-stop action with neither backing down. But dirty head butts do not a winner make: Amanda clearly dominated with superior speed and power (compubox didn't lie!). Rip-off judges are becoming the norm. Still, everyone with eyes knows she won this--and kudos to her for coming up 3 weight classes -- what a warrior.

The brilliant Vasily Lomachenko won a tough-fought battle against Devon Haney last Saturday night. That may have not been how it played out on the (corrupt--ahem) judges cards, but the world saw the former champion utterly DEMOLISH his opponent in rounds 10 & 11. Most of the other rounds were very close, but these were the only dominant rounds by either fighter, who also led on punch stats. The fact that all 3 judges gave Haney the 12th--when the completely gassed boxer basically ran and held the entire round--is just one more boxing travesty . So kudos to you, Loma. You are a champion.

Well this one went about how we expected. We thought Garcia won at least a couple of those early rounds, though, as Tank was hanging back and Garcia landed some great right hands as well as some good work on the inside. But...he got caught while throwing. Twice. And the last one was fatal. This young star Ryan Garcia has plenty of life in him yet, but the question is who can stop Tank? Anyone?

Looking forward to Davis v. Garcia. Hoping Ryan Garcia doesn't get too confident and get caught by a sneaky Tank powerpunch. Then again, Garcia's power is going to make Davis think twice. Gonna be a good one!